The victory over France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870/1871) led to the founding of the German Empire. The colors of Prussia, white and black, supplemented by the red of the Hanseatic cities ...

It was adopted as the national flag of the German Empire in 1892. However, when the Weimar Republic was formed in 1918, the original flag colours of 'Schwarz-Rot-Gold' came back into action and ...